The Hidden Year

by Leah Isabella Reed

Mia and Beth Anderson are demigods and Muggle-borns. Mia is eleven and Beth is seventeen. Mia is entering Hogwarts just in time to be questioned by the Muggle-Born Registration Committee, be haunted by Dementors, and live in a school that is under You-Know-Who's thumb. But there is another secret that Mia and her sister have kept, so dark that they would be banished forever.

1. Prolouge

I wish I could tell you that I'm a perfectly normal kid. I'd love to tell you that I'm even an ordinary wizard. But then I'd be lying to you, and no matter what happens, I do not lie. Compared to me, Harry Potter is positively boring. I mean, I'm not ugly or anything. And it isn't something I did that makes me an outcast. It's my parents.

My dad is not a wizard. My sister and I are both Muggle-Borns.

My mom is Athena. She gave birth to my sister, Beth, on December 29th, nearly eighteen years ago. Then she left. But she came back overeleven years later and gave birth to me on April 15th.

We're both Half-Bloods. We're both Muggle-Borns. And we're not safe.

Not ever.